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Tony Belpaeme

Tony Belpaeme

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
47
Citations
9214
World Ranking
6473
National Ranking
68

Overview

Tony Belpaeme is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Computer Science. Their work spans a range of topics related to human-robot interaction and artificial intelligence.

The main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Computer Science

Within these fields, their subfields of focus are:

  • Social Psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

The scientist's research topics cover:

  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Tony Belpaeme has co-authored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Christoph Bartneck
  • Friederike Eyssel
  • Selma Šabanović
  • Takayuki Kanda
  • Merel Keijsers

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Social Robotics
  • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • Applied Sciences
  • Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Tony Belpaeme are:

  • "A Review of Evaluation Practices of Gesture Generation in Embodied Conversational Agents" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
  • "A Socially Assistive Robot for Long-Term Cardiac Rehabilitation in the Real World" (2021), Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • "The DREAM Dataset: Supporting a data-driven study of autism spectrum disorder and robot enhanced therapy" (2020), PLoS ONE
  • "Collaborative and Inclusive Process with the Autism Community: A Case Study in Colombia About Social Robot Design" (2020), International Journal of Social Robotics
  • "A Proposal of Accessibility Guidelines for Human-Robot Interaction" (2021), Electronics

Tony Belpaeme has authored several book publications, including works under prominent academic publishers:

  • Human-Robot Interaction (2020), Cambridge University Press
  • Human-Robot Interaction (2024), Cambridge University Press
  • Human-Robot Interaction (2020), Springer International Publishing
  • Robots in Education: An Introduction to High-Tech Social Agents, Intelligent Tutors, and Curricular Tools (2021), Ghent University

Best Publications

  • Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: A case study for colour

    Luc Steels;Tony Belpaeme

  • Multimodal child-robot interaction: building social bonds

    Tony Belpaeme;Paul Baxter;Robin Read;Rachel Wood

  • The Robot Who Tried Too Hard: Social Behaviour of a Robot Tutor Can Negatively Affect Child Learning

    James Kennedy;Paul Baxter;Tony Belpaeme

  • Integration of Action and Language Knowledge: A Roadmap for Developmental Robotics

    A Cangelosi;G Metta;G Sagerer;S Nolfi

  • Robot education peers in a situated primary school study: Personalisation promotes child learning.

    Paul Baxter;Paul Baxter;Emily Ashurst;Robin Read;James Kennedy

  • Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations

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  • Comparing Robot Embodiments in a Guided Discovery Learning Interaction with Children

    James Kennedy;Paul Baxter;Tony Belpaeme

  • Robot-assisted therapy for autism spectrum disorders with (partially) autonomous control: Challenges and outlook

    Serge Thill;Cristina A Pop;Tony Belpaeme;Tom Ziemke

  • Child-Robot Interaction: Perspectives and Challenges

    Tony Belpaeme;Paul Baxter;Joachim Greeff;James Kennedy

  • Children conform, adults resist: A robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity

    Anna-Lisa Vollmer;Robin Read;Dries Trippas;Tony Belpaeme;Tony Belpaeme

  • Guidelines for Designing Social Robots as Second Language Tutors

    Tony Belpaeme;Tony Belpaeme;Paul Vogt;Rianne van den Berghe;Kirsten Bergmann

  • How to build a supervised autonomous system for robot-enhanced therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder

    Pablo Gómez Esteban;Paul Baxter;Tony Belpaeme;Erik Billing

  • Second language tutoring using social robots: a large-scale study

    Paul Vogt;Rianne van den Berghe;Mirjam de Haas;Laura Hoffman

  • Social Robot Tutoring for Child Second Language Learning

    James Kennedy;Paul Baxter;Emmanuel Senft;Tony Belpaeme

  • A review of long-term memory in natural and synthetic systems

    Rachel Wood;Paul Baxter;Tony Belpaeme

  • Epigenetic Robotics Architecture (ERA)

    A F Morse;J de Greeff;T Belpeame;A Cangelosi

  • Human-Robot Interaction: An Introduction

    Christoph Bartneck;Tony Belpaeme;Friederike Eyssel;Takayuki Kanda

  • Child-robot interaction in the wild: advice to the aspiring experimenter

    Raquel Ros;Marco Nalin;Rachel Wood;Paul Baxter

  • The multi-modal interface of Robot-Era multi-robot services tailored for the elderly

    Alessandro G. Di Nuovo;Alessandro G. Di Nuovo;Frank Broz;Ning Wang;Tony Belpaeme;Tony Belpaeme

  • Towards long-term social child-robot interaction: using multi-activity switching to engage young users

    Alexandre Coninx;Paul Baxter;Elettra Oleari;Sara Bellini

  • Explaining Universal Color Categories Through a Constrained Acquisition Process

    Tony Belpaeme;Joris Bleys

  • From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations

    Paul Baxter;James Kennedy;Emmanuel Senft;Severin Lemaignan

  • Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

    Gerhard Sagerer;Michita Imai;Tony Belpaeme;Andrea Thomaz

Frequent Co-Authors

Angelo Cangelosi
Angelo Cangelosi University of Manchester
Rachel Wood
Rachel Wood Australian National University
Takayuki Kanda
Takayuki Kanda Kyoto University
Andreas Birk
Andreas Birk Jacobs University
Gerhard Sagerer
Gerhard Sagerer Bielefeld University
Christoph Bartneck
Christoph Bartneck University of Canterbury
Honghai Liu
Honghai Liu University of Portsmouth
Luc Steels
Luc Steels Spanish National Research Council
Daniel David
Daniel David Babeș-Bolyai University
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology

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